---
title: "The Exam Has to Pass Its Own Exam"
date: "2026-10-19T20:00:00+08:00"
categories:
- talks
tags: []
description: "A week after inventing agent-friendly assessments in public, the TDS team meets running code, student questions, checking budgets, a dropped $500 experiment, leaky graders, and a pass rate that only counts who scored above zero."
talk_url: "https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-10-19-tds-ideation/"
---

I conducted a session on Mon, 19 Oct 2026 at [TDS Course Ideation — Open Design Meeting, Sep 2026](https://tds.s-anand.net/) - Remote.

**Speakers**: [Anand S](https://www.s-anand.net/)

**Summary**: A week after inventing agent-friendly assessments in public, the TDS team meets running code, student questions, checking budgets, a dropped $500 experiment, leaky graders, and a pass rate that only counts who scored above zero.

[Here's the link to the session](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-10-19-tds-ideation/)

[![Comic](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-10-19-tds-ideation/comic-page.avif)](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-10-19-tds-ideation/)

**Links**:

- [Video](https://media.s-anand.net/2026-10-19-tds-course-ideation.webm) (60 min)
- [Transcript](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-10-19-tds-ideation/transcript.md)
- [Captions](https://talks.s-anand.net/2026-10-19-tds-ideation/captions.vtt)
- [Audio](https://github.com/sanand0/talks/releases/download/talks/2026-10-19-tds-ideation.opus) (60 min)